- Unemployment in the US at large and my own joblessness
- Ben Bernanke's assurance that we are "days away from a global economic crisis"
- Vaccines possibly causing autism
- People not vaccinating their kids and a rise in polio and other childhood diseases
- North Korea
- Russia
- The government positing that they have a solution to the market crisis
- Republicans not acting like Republicans
- Democrats not acting like Democrats
- A presidential race where I think both options are mostly the same
- Loss of fossil fuels
- Dependency on foreign oil
- Healthcare and insurance
- Wall Street
- Global poverty
- My own biological clock
- The feeling that making this list hasn't been as cathartic as I had hoped
- Helplessness
- Food shortages and rising food prices
Feel free to add to this list. I am curious if I am the only one feeling these anxieties.